Introduction to SNS
SNS is a web service that helps you automate sending an email or text message notifications based on events (for example, stopping an EC2 instance or deleting a Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket) that happen in your AWS account. It's a fully managed publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging service that lets you send messages to many recipients at once, using topics.
AWS SNS has the following two major components:
- Publisher (producers): The publisher's responsibility is to produce and send a message to the topic, which acts as a logical access point.
- Subscriber (consumers): The consumer consumes or receives the message or notification over one of the supported protocols (for example, email, SNS, SQS, or Lambda) when they are subscribed to the topic.
Now, you understand what SNS is. To get started with SNS, you need to follow this series of steps:
- Go to the SNS console at https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/sns/v3/home and...